US Patent Issued to Washington University on June 9 for "Carotid plaque segmentation using trained neural network" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,334, issued on June 9, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Carotid plaque segmentation using trained neural network" was invented by Pamela Woodard (St. Louis), Ran Li (St. Louis), Abhinav Kumar Jha (St. Louis) and Jie Zheng (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing image data includes receiving at least one image of a patient; providing the at least one image of the patient to a multi-stage trained model for segmenting the at least one image; and processing the at least one image based on the multi-stage trained model to segment the image into a plurality of segmented images that are separated b...